Your intrepid columnist likes to think long thoughts, sometimes. Jenrry Mejia was mowing down Dodger after Dodger for six innings until he was betrayed by some bad defense – “Oh, Murph…” goes the Twitter lament when Daniel Murphy makes a gaffe like last night’s – and atrocious umpiring. A graphic on SNY told the columnist that Matt Harvey was going to be facing Hyun-jin Ryu on Tuesday. Immediately, giddiness set in. That the Mets can trot a couple of potent weapons out onto the hill on consecutive nights brought back memories of the early-1970s. Let’s see… Is Mejia Jerry Koosman or Jon Matlack? Harvey is clearly the Tom Seaver equivalency, so does that make Zack Wheeler Gary Gentry? The mind boggles, thinking about the parade of quality arms passing in front of the Met fan these days. Dillon Gee and newly-returned and rejuvenated Jonathon Niese round out this current quintet with a non-steep dropoff from the “Big Three,” and the whispers of the prowess of Rafael ...

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